In the latest episode of The Email Design Podcast, hosts Kevin Mandeville and Jason Rodriguez dig into some recent Litmus research, take a look at Google’s latest email client, and review a beautiful email of the week.

Subject line mistakes that distract and confuse subscribers—and are embarrassing for the brand—are too common. We discuss five such subject line mistakes and share numerous real-world examples, plus tips on how to avoid making these errors.

In the 95th episode of The Email Design Podcast, Kevin Mandeville and Jason Rodriguez answer recent questions from the Litmus Community in a rapid fire format, including topics on CSS inlining, email client market share tracking, iOS 11 scaling, and more. Be sure to follow along and join in the discussion on Twitter using #EmailDesignPodcast.

Yahoo! has quietly changed the way it handles images for Yahoo! Mail users. The inbox provider now caches all images and serves them via their own proxy servers. This has a significant impact on the level of insights marketers can get from Yahoo! Mail users, and it can even impact the reliability of dynamic content.

Here’s a breakdown of everything marketers must know about image caching in Yahoo! Mail.

The 2018 edition of the Litmus State of Email Report analyzes the biggest developments in email client news, market share insights, and key industry updates. Plus, we dive into what those changes mean for your email team and provide hands-on advice to help you stay at the forefront of email innovation.

There’s a disconnect in today’s email marketing technology. While some tactics are helping brands get closer to their customers, others are undermining their return on investment by pushing customers away. In this webinar, Litmus Research Director Chad S. White helps you distinguish between the tools and tactics that improve your email program and those that hurt your program because they’re abusive and annoying.

Nearly 3,000 marketers completed Litmus’ 2018 State of Email Survey, which explores how brands plan, build, approve, send, and measure the performance of their email campaigns. Those results provide a great portrait of today’s email professional, which we detail in this infographic.

The 2018 edition of Litmus Live—our annual conference devoted to all things email—is getting closer. We’re working hard on making it the best year yet: full of informational speakers and sessions that help you improve your email campaigns and make your subscribers happy. That’s why we’re calling on you, the email lovers of the world, to submit your proposal for speaking at Litmus Live 2018.

Personalization, automation, and A/B testing top the list of 2018 email marketing priorities for brands, according to Litmus’ 2018 State of Email Survey of nearly 3,000 marketers. However, when it comes to email marketing spending, the integration of email with other channels is tops.

With so many image file formats available—BMP, EPS, JPEG, PNG, and GIF to name a few—how do you determine which is right for your email? Each format produces variances in file size, compression, and quality. To make things more confusing, support for specific file types can also vary between email clients. In this post, we’ll weigh the pros and cons of four popular file formats for email: JPEG, GIF, PNG, and SVG.